Equation 16 · Part 4 · The EV Formula Is an Exact Production Function Trainers Solved by Accident
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What this part means
The expressions on both sides represent the same quantity under the stated assumptions.
Its job in the formula
The equals sign connects the complete expression on the left with the complete expression on the right. Both sides must have compatible units.
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The passage around this formula
Hitting the 127-point ceiling says nothing yet about which stats should receive the investment — that answer depends on what the spread is actually for. For the Swords Dance set’s job, sweeping through a metagame’s Speed tiers with a boosted physical attack, I define a proposed measure I will call the sweep index: the product of a Pokémon’s final Attack stat and its final Speed stat. This is not an official in-game statistic; it is this article’s own construct, chosen because a physical sweeper that hits hard but moves last contributes nothing, a sweeper that moves first but hits softly contributes little, and a product (rather than a sum) captures that the two failure modes compound rather…
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An equals sign says that the expression on its left and the expression on its right have the same value under the stated definitions and assumptions.
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Sources cited in the article section
- [7] Generation 9 OU moveset data (Garchomp: TankChomp, Swords Dance) ↗
- [9] Generation 9 OU written analysis (Garchomp) ↗
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